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Regular expressions are not my forte and could really do with assistance on matching and replacing the following:
In a HTML file I have many instances of HTML like this:
<font class=font8>text text text</font>
The font tag can have different content in either single word or multiple word with spaces and maybe numbers.
I need to find all instances of this and replace with:
<span class="bold">(text that was there)</span>
Thanks James
PS: the HTML was generated from word that is why it is so bad :o)
</div>
Use getElementsByTagName('font') and the DOMDocument::loadHTML method and iterate through the nodelist based in the ->length, then createElement('span') and setAttribute for the class name value of bold, do a replaceChild to replace it.
Reference for DOM: http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php